Plausibility of stromal initiation of epithelial cancers without a mutation in the epithelium: A computer simulation of morphostats

BMC Cancer

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Baker, Stuart G ^a   Soto, Ana M ^b   Sonnenschein, Carlos ^b   Cappuccio, Antonio ^c   Potter, John D ^d   Kramer, Barnett S ^e  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^d Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL POPULATION; CELL RENEWAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; EPIGENETICS; EPITHELIUM; EPITHELIUM TUMOR; FOUNDER EFFECT; HYPOTHESIS; MOLECULE; MORPHOSTAT; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; STEM CELL; STROMA; TISSUE INTERACTION; TISSUE STRUCTURE; ANIMAL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POLARITY; CELL TRANSFORMATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; STROMA CELL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POLARITY; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS; PHENOTYPE; STROMAL CELLS;

EID: 64049111618     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-89     Document Type: Article

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